Software-defined networking
• OpenFlow
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Broadcast control
• Advanced classifier-based QoS
VLAN, or entire switch
• Powerful QoS feature
• Traffic policing
Connectivity
• Auto-MDIX
• Flow Control
• High-density connectivity
• Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)
Performance
• Non-blocking architecture
• Hardware-based wirespeed access control lists (ACLs)
Resiliency and high availability
• Separate data and control paths
• Smart Link
• Spanning Tree/PVST+, MSTP, RSTP
• Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF)
• Internal Dual Redundant Power Supply
Manageability
• Dual-flash images
• Multiple configuration files
Layer 2 switching
• 32K MAC address table
• VLAN support and tagging
• IEEE 802.1ad QinQ and selective QinQ
• 10GbE port aggregation
• Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)
• Jumbo frame support
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• Loopback interface address
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) helper function
• Route maps
• DHCP server
Layer 3 routing
• Static IP routing
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
• Policy Based Routing
Security
• Access control lists (ACLs)
• IEEE 802.1X
• MAC-based authentication
• Identity-driven security and access control
• Secure management access
• Secure FTP/SCP
• Guest VLAN
• Port security
• Port isolation
• STP BPDU port protection
• STP root guard
• DHCP protection
• RADIUS/HWTACACS
• Endpoint Admission Defense (EAD)
• IPv6 source guard
Convergence
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Discovery)
• LLDP-CDP compatibility
• IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE+)
• PoE allocations
• Voice VLAN
• IP multicast snooping (data-driven IGMP)
• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)"
